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This series is about a guy called Urakawa Minoru crossdressing as a girl to participate in a female idol group audition (akb48). The main objective is to help the girl he likes, Yoshinaga Hiroko, pass the audition. Yoshinaga Hiroko's dream is to become like her favourite idol who is in the akb48 group. This audition happens to be her final try, so Minoru crossdresses as Minori and took part in the audition to make sure she realizes her dream. Hiroko got qualified eventually, however, the shocking news was Minoru was qualified as well. Thus, the road to becoming a female idol begins...

Spoiler for my impressions:

I'm not a fan of gender bender but it sounded interesting and I got hooked into it. I'm not familiar with the idol group but I heard they are portrayed real well in the manga compared to the real ones. My favorite so far is Takamina.

Oh I like Takamina too but I also like that cool girl in the main AKB group
This manga is quite good, but it's hard to distinguish each character when they're not talking I mean, all of them looks similar

Vol 5 just came out in Japan. It's a surprisingly good manga though and quite amusing. It's a lot more serious about idols than you'd expect. The actual AKB48 members are written a bit like caricatures but it's roughly what their image is like. No Nakayan sucks though, she should be in the mnaga too.

It is actually a pretty interesting manga, though the portrayal of actual AKB members seems a bit weird for for me, image-wise as Shouta says. I still has hard time adapting to a cool, badass Atsusko or the cute, super loli Minami.